322 MALVACE^. Sida. 



and angulate in age ; lobes becoming much acuminate from broad base, much surpassing 

 the depressed glabrous and smooth fruit of 8 or 9 rounded and pointless thin-walled carpels. 

 — PI. Wright, i. 18, ii. 21; Rothrock in Wheeler, Rep. vi. 75. —Plains of W. Texas to 

 Arizona, Wright, and later Rot/irock, Lemmvn, &c. With var. depauperata, merely a reduced 

 form, and 



Var. sagittSBfolia, Gray, 11. cc. Leaves all hastate- or sagittate-lanceolate or the 

 base on one side bearing 2 or 3 narrow lanceolate lobes. — W. Texas to S. Colorado and 

 S.Arizona; first coll. by Wright. (Chihuahua, Thurber.) 



S. CUneifolia, Gray. Tomentulose-canesceut, ascending, much branched : leaves flabelli- 

 form or cuneiform, or some rotund with barely cuneate base, repand-dentate or crenulate 

 around the broad summit, half inch or so long : stipules linear, herbaceous : flowers subses- 

 sile : petals yellow, barely quarter inch long : calyx not surpassing the oval fruit of about 

 5 turgid and thin-walled sliort-acuminate (and in deliiscence 2-beaked) carpels. — PI. Lindh. 

 pt. 2, 165, & PI. Wright, i. 18. — Subsaliue soil along and near the Rio Grande from Eagle 

 Pass southward, S. Texas, Berlandier, Wright. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier.) 



S.* Helleri, Rose. Suffrutescent, much-branched, spreading or procumbent, cinereous, 

 2 feet high : leaves suborbicular, crenate, rounded or truncate at the base, seldom exceeding 

 half inch in diameter, loosely stellate-pubescent upon both surfaces ; slender petioles half or 

 two thirds the length of the leaves : subsessile flowers small, leafy-bracted : ovate-oblong 

 obtusish sepals becoming 3 lines in length : corolla " pale copper-colored " : carpels obtuse. — 

 Rose in Heller, Contrib. Herb. Frankl. & Marsh. Coll. i. 66. — Very common along sandy 

 shores of Corpus Christi Bay at Oso, Heller, no. 1533. Similar to but clearly distinct from 

 the last preceding species. 



§ 2. Pseudo-Nap^a, Gray. Calyx (naked at base, as in the genus gener- 

 ally) short and 5-toothed, terete at base, unchanged in age : petals white : herb- 

 age green and nearly glabrous ; the leaves ample and palmately cleft : flowers 

 corymbulose in pedunculate panicles. — PL Fendl. 23. 



S. Napeea, Cav. Glabrous or young parts minutely cinereous-puberulent : stems 3 to 7 feet 

 high from a stout perennial root : leaves 3 to 8 inches long, 3-7-cleft ; lobes triangular, long- 

 acuminate, irregularly serrate : petals hardly half inch long : mature carpels triangular- 

 ovate, acuminate, nearly glabrous. — Diss. v. 277, t. 132, f. 1 ; Willd. Spec. iii. 766; Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2193; DC. Prodr. i. 466; Gray, 1. c.i Nnpcea hermaphrodita, L. Spec. ii. 686. 

 N. Icevis, L. Mant. ii. 435 ; Lam. 111. t. 579, f. 1. — Glades and river banks, rare, West Vir- 

 ginia and S. Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna, opposite Safe Harbor, Porter ; ^ long culti- 

 vated in gardens ; fl. late summer. 



§ 3. Calyxhymenia, Gray. Calyx 5-lobed, naked, strongly 5-angled, much 

 accrescent and membranaceous or scarious in age : carpels indehiscent, subrostrate 

 or apiculate but muticous : petals yellow. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 294. 



S.* hastata, St. Hil.^ Loosely stellular-hirsute, green, partly glabrate : stems spreading 

 or decumbent from a fleshy-ligneous perennial root, a foot or two long: leaves rather succu- 

 lent, subcordate to oblong, obtuse, inch or two long, slender-petioled, crenate or serrate : 

 peduncles solitary in the axils, one-flowered, soon recurved : petals buff -color, hardly exceed- 

 ing the 5-parted calyx : lobes of the latter as if cordate, in anthesis 3 lines long and pale 

 green, at length 5 or 6 lines long, membranaceous and veiny, together connivent and form- 

 ing a vesicular globular and wing-angled loose covering over the fruit: carpels 10, ovate 

 with short beak-like apex, very thin-membranaceous and reticulate-veiny, sulcate round the 

 back, conformed to the turgid seed. — Fl. Bras. Merid. i. 190, t. 36, f. 2. S. physocali/x, 



1 Add syn. S. hermaphrodita, Riisby, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 223. 



- Also in E. Tennessee, ace. to Chapman, and on the Potomac flats near Washington, D. C, ace. 

 to Burj^ess. 



3 There appears to be no doubt of Ihe identity of Dr. Gray's S. physocalyx with the South Ameri- 

 can plant (of. E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. xxx. 140), and the later name must give place to the earlier. 



